9 Responses to Lewisham Round Up

Gah! Your mention of Open Studios made me think about our own ones over the border, so I checked the site http://www.greenwichopenstudios.org/ and found they were last weekend & I missed them. d’oh, d’oh, d’oh!
I may need to go to Brockley to compensate. Paul de Monchaux might be quite fun especially. Thanks for sharing.

Well, the drawings specify that there wil be a garden on top there and as the pool room has taller buildings all around one can safely assume that if the brief doesn’t change there won’t be any windows.
I noticed another thing today. Only the 6 lanes option has the shape of the pool to show how it will fit, the 8 lane doesn’t. I tried with photoshop on a screenshot of the 6 lane option widening it of 1/3 and the result is that there is not much space around, so the 250 spectator seats (less than half of Ladywell) forecast could really struggle to fit in there.
It’s another indication of how the mix of the development is unbalanced and the leisure side is made to suffer. I don’t think that they need to do so, only that they want to get more money out of it.

This is the problem with ‘outline planning permission’ though isn’t it?

Permission for a site to be razed is given and then more detailed plans for the buildings would be submitted (correct me if I’m wrong)

So, for instance, if ‘outline planning permission’ is granted for the Gateway then the site would be cleared, roads rerouted etc etc in readiness for whatever the developers would deem be suitable for the residents of Lewisham and what they can bully past the limp Lewisham Council.

I saw you wax slightly lyrical about the Sundermead estate somewhere else (or maybe here), but, judging from the outside, there are at least 3 shameful architectural design detail errors that would make even the most pedestrian of architects shudder in disbelief – I’ll leave you to work out what they might be ;). But perhaps this is an example of lack of attention to detail by all concerned with the Sundermead.

Multiply the Sundermead by the Gateway/Loampit development and we can only (at the moment) dream of the accident waiting to happen.

Incidentally, these are my own thoughts and not neccesarily representative of the residents objection to the gateway scheme – be we all know that blogs aren’t serious
( 😉 again)

Another incidentally – it’s on record that one of AMEC’s representatives has said: “We believe the Lewisham Gateway scheme is fundamentally robust from all perspectives including the treatment of the Quaggy.”

It’s easy to say isn’t it, and you wouldn’t expect anything else, but, If in years to come, this isn’t proved to be the case, who will be around to take the can?

If, now, there are concerns about the Sundermead Estate (and I’m not saying there are) who would be responsible?